Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.

Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets.

Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.

So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation can afford to be satisfied. We have the ability, as members of the human race, we have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We only need the will.

Someone always needs rescuing, yet there's only one person who ever seems to understand you. It's a lot like being Lassie.